I read the debate for and against wind farms with interest, but being a working man who left school well over 40 years ago I find the technical points above me. I just do not know enough to give an educated argument for either side.

So when reading “Ugly monstrosities should be called wind factories” by Richard Cook (Letters, July 17), I realised I’m missing the most important point of all – wind farms are “ugly”, they are “visual pollution”.

Thinking on this further, I looked at the electricity pylons outside my front window (they are really ugly, they can go), an ugly dirty bus going past spewing pollution (that can go), an ugly articulated lorry doing the same (that can go).

So a lot of people will have no power, no transport and no food. Life can be tough, but the chosen few will have a far more beautiful world to look at. Life would be awfully difficult without all that is “inefficient, ugly and expensive”.

Perhaps wind farms are inefficient now but remember they do not burn gas, oil or coal and there is no radioactivity involved.

How would we answer our great-grandchildren as they sit around a candle with their hair and teeth falling out, asking: “Who were these Don Quixotes tilting at windmills and who left us a world like this?”

J M WHEELER, Southampton.